The requirement of the federal government to take into account other factors in addition to the incidence for assessing the corona situation is expected to become binding in Hesse soon.
In the next week, the state government wants to discuss how to adapt the regulations.
As reported, there are plans to allow restaurateurs, hairdressers and other companies to use the 2-G rule in the future.
This would give them the opportunity to only allow access to those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered (this is what 2G stands for).
Helmut Schwan
Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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However, it is still open whether the new version of the Corona ordinances will process the requirements from Berlin.
As a result, more factors should flow into the assessment of the corona situation in the future than the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week, such as the number of hospital admissions.
Combining the various parameters is not easy, say Steffen Gramminger, Director of the Hessian Hospital Society, and Jürgen Graf, Medical Director of the Frankfurt University Hospital and head of the planning team for the clinical care of Covid 19 patients.
It is “right to include additional parameters”, says University Clinic Director Graf, “but that also makes it more complicated”.
Politicians must not only set threshold values for the individual indicators, but also bring them down to a common denominator and derive rules for political decisions from them: "It will not be easy." With a mixture of different indicators, the pandemic can be "read better", said Hospital Society Director Gramminger: “But how do you interlink them, and what are the consequences?” It is important to the hospital society that people can see through the new, more complicated system: “It must remain understandable for the population, otherwise the resulting measures will be implemented not accepted."
Collateral damage from fighting pandemics
According to the figures from Thursday, the incidence in Hesse has fallen slightly, the national average to 110.5 after 113.6 the previous day. The situation has also eased slightly in the Frankfurt / Offenbach area. Furthermore, the discrepancy in the number of new infections between those who are not or not yet sufficiently vaccinated (incidence of 285.4) and those who have been completely vaccinated (13.0) remains very high. Within one day, the health authorities registered 1,382 new infections and four more deaths related to the pathogen. According to data from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine on Thursday, 119 people with Covid 19 were in the intensive care units of the Hessian hospitals. 50 of them had to be ventilated.
According to the DAK-Gesundheit children and youth report, the corona pandemic has serious consequences for the health of children and adolescents in Germany. In 2020, 60 percent more girls and boys were treated for obesity in hospitals than in the previous year. The number of young patients who were severely underweight rose by more than a third. Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia increased by nearly ten percent.